It's hard to stay leftist when the government literally props up the relevancy of your entire industry at the expense of every other film-making center.
Idk what you are talking about. People use the words 'bougie' and 'prole' constantly these days. They aren't usually using them correctly, and it has more to do with the consumptive character of an item than the class orientation and characteristics of a person, but the language is out there. We have to and can take the language back at some point. Even the uneducated are receptive to it with some lead-in about how class analysis actually works.
Using 'the elite' or 'the rich' does not actually contain class analysis. If you then follow up with class analysis and associate those words with class analysis then it is fine. However, you will not capture any unified broad spectrum interest without that class analysis, which means using words like bourgeois and proletariat distinguish what you are talking about as being fundamentally different than the common discourse on these subjects is a really fucking good idea.
Agreed that trying to boil your politics down to a single specific named tendency is ridiculous, especially in the U.S. However, the kinds of 'communists' that do this in the U.S. are a tiny, if loud, crackpot minority that you see out on the Capitol Square, who are likely insane, feds, or both.
You are more likely to find the real ass sane, principled communists working at a food bank or community garden than manning a recruitment table in public or openly repping an org at a protest. And there way more of those people out there than of the others.
You are posting this critique on the incorrect website. No one here would ever claim a hyper specific kind of tendency.
What he is talking about is the funny idea that liberals have that if you are nice to people (politicians) and have good, kind, conversations with them, they will suddenly ignore their material interests and do the right thing. "Micro-dynamics" means conversations between influential people lol.
"Micro-dynamics"? Oh you mean having conversations with people. Alright Matty, let's here your next big brain fart that the nation will be subjected to.
People forget that Jeff Dunham was like the favorite comedian of the Saudis for years. They have never been adverse to 'edgy-comedy' that is approved by the empire.
For anybody over the age of like, 30 who played PC growing up, TF2 was the team shooter, even more than CounterStrike, mostly because it was free to get started in and had a low skill for entry, lots of collectables/outfits and a high skill ceiling.
I would guess that was still mostly true up until maybe Overwatch. I know TF2 is still very popular with large sections of online gaming groups.
The interesting thing to see is if it will actually work. In my experience, any chilling effect is nullified by the fact that we were correct and the libs that care are not trained to ever shut the hell up about anything. It will take a serious, dedicated, crackdown to actually stomp out these kinds of radicalized libs from joining these organizations, if anything this gives them more national prominence than they ever had before.
That said, these people also are not trained cadres, and likely just add more chaos into the mix, plus fed infiltration. Curse of interesting times indeed.
At least the Dems are proving their fecklessness at every turn here.
Bitcoin will not help you. Half of the reason places like Coinbase are allowed to operate us because they regularly turn over their transaction data to the government when asked to. On top of that, Bitcoin is literally a ledger of transactions. All it takes is one person not using a secure transaction and the whole thing is open to scrutiny and can be dug into.
Why would they want a youth wing? It implies that they want to govern and not just do fancy dinners with donors and celebrities.
It's not that they can't help but sideline him, it's that the entire point of the Democratic Party is to disrupt and sideline real political enthusiasm on behalf of their donors.
As someone who is a difficulty enjoyer, my large issue is when people claim that a game is 'fair'. This is patently not true, especially for stuff like fromsoft (especially early fromsoft). Shit clips and glitches out, hit boxes are not where your expect them to be so where to dodge isn't intuitive unless you just know. So it's not 'fair'. It's unfair on purpose.
But half of the fun is figuring out how to break it in such a way that makes it feel like you are being unfair to the game. When you crush the hardest difficulty through understanding and mastery of the mechanics and game knowledge.
Nothing against those who just want to play through something casually though.
That is doubtful. The low grade civil war has been going on for a little over a decade, unless something drastically shifts the power balance, I don't see an outright revolution coming.
In addition to that, any revolutionary government coming out of the Philippines will likely immediately be at political odds with China unless they are willing to let bygones be bygones. Mostly it would just throw chaos in to the region.
That said, it would be great to see as most of the Philippines is basically run by mafia-style family gangs. Truly terrible sometimes.
Well, typically, the Stalinist show trials are called such because a trotskyist group held trials for the individuals in absecentia afterwards that supposedly absolved them of their crimes, by throwing out all of their confessional testimony as being made under duress (which tbf it probably was). Literally holding show trials.
That said, what the trotskyist group failed to do, of course, is place it in context to the kinds of trials that were taking place in the U.S. where they were based out of, was understand that what the USSR did was exactly the same level of evidence and scrutiny that was done in basically every other country for treason. The more I read about these old Trotskyist groups, the more I realize that they held the USSR to an impossible standard, while actively undermining it's foreign policy in the countries they lived in, while not holding those countries to the same standards as the USSR in terms of them offering direct assistance. Basically, they were willing to do critical support for capitalist countries, but not for countries that called themselves communist. The worst kind of schemers and backbiters.
"Serious" is doing some heavy lifting there.